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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did Isaac Albebiz catch a train to a casino where he played piano for guests and gamblers?

2. What album by Glenn Gould is described as combining personality, ideas, bouncing rhythm and fast tempos?

3. Who sought ideal music he could play and compose and eventually settled on Mozart's twelve piano concertos at farewell concerts in 1922?

4. Ernest Hutcheson became president of what school of music?

5. What musical school did Anton Rubinstein found?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Harold Bauer's American debut. What is noted of the pianist's style?

2. Who were the forerunners of modernism? How did modernism differ from romanticism?

3. How are Alfred Brendel and Maurizio Pollini described in Chapter XXXVII, Two Cult Figures?

4. How did Vladimir Horowitz's piano career begin? What was the public reaction to the pianist?

5. What advances in piano technique are described in Chapter XXXI, New Philosophies, New Styles? Where did they originate?

6. What female students of Liszt are described in Chapter XXV, The Ladies?

7. What nickname did Leopold Godowsky earn? Why?

8. Who was Harold Bauer? Describe the Bauer's early career.

9. Who was Isaac Albeniz? Describe his early career.

10. Who was Artur Schnabel and what was his expertise in music? How is Schnabel described?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When and where was Louis Moreau Gottschalk born? Where did he rise to fame? When did he make his American debut and where?

Essay Topic 2

Who originated the transition from classicism to romanticism in the eighteenth century? Describe these pianists, composers, and their works.

Essay Topic 3

Who invented the piano and when? What instruments foreshadowed it? How did it rise to popularity?

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